Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...release from prison, reporters (men who remembered waiting to see him outside the Governor's office) flocked to greet him. They found him sad and thin, his face grooved with prison despair. He had been ill most of the latter months in jail; he had taught in the prison Sunday school; had edited Good Words, the prison newsmagazine; never, during his sentence, did Warren T. McCray, a proud man, allow his wife or any member of his family to visit him. When told of his parole, the one-time Governor had wept for a few minutes and then...
...among pajama-clad bathers and loiterers. He would don no beach-pajamas, saying that they reminded him of a familiar dream, that of appearing unclad at some social function. Mrs. Walker wore a yellow, fragile garment, a morning dress. At dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance, forgave this defect...
...Weakest Link." Ill in Yonkers, N. Y., unable to attend, Samuel Untermyer, fiery Manhattan counselor, wrote a letter for President Whitman to read aloud. ". . . The administration of justice, which...
Dikran Kuyumjian ("Michael Arlen"), novelist, was reported ill, despondent, trying to gather strength in Switzerland for an operation, his second within two years, which was "expected to diminish his nervous vitality...
...Miss Susan Dwight Bliss of Manhattan to the hospital at Indian Harbor, Labrador, a unit of Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfells famed and farflung medical missions. The Marabel was laden with winter supplies for hard-working doctor- preachers. The women burned were Grenfell volunteers, the Misses Harriot Houghteling of Chicago, Ill., and Margaret Pierce of Haverford...